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Pascal Xavier Langlois (born September 5, 1973), known professionally as Pascal Langdale, is an English actor and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Ethan Mars in Heavy Rain, which he provided motion capture and voice acting for.

Langdale has appeared in supporting roles in a number of television shows since 1999. He runs Collective Intent, a company that assists in facial capture and Behavior Libraries for video games, and teaches performance capture workshops with The Mocap Vaults. He has also co-written a book, Performing for Motion Capture: A Guide for Practitioners with Mocap Vaults co-founder and fellow tutor John Dower.


Film Roles:

Television Roles:

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) as Armand St. Just
  • Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married (1999-2000) as Daniel
  • Shades (2001) as Doug
  • Down to Earth (2001) as Alan Walcot
  • Always and Everyone (2002) as Nick
  • Holby City (2002) as David Keelan
  • Dalziel and Pascoe as Philip Constable
  • Ultimate Force (2003) as LeCompte
  • Wire in the Blood (2003, 2004) as Gordon
  • The Bill (2006) as Roland Brayson
  • Casualty (2006) as Paul McAllister
  • Extras (2006) as Mark
  • Trial and Retribution (2007) as Jordan Phillips
  • 2057 (2007) as Alain Degasnote 
  • Doctors (2008, 2010) as Daryl Jeffrey & Angus Warren
  • My Family (2009) as Adult Kenzo
  • Free Agents (2009) as Doctor Two-Scenes
  • Spooks (2009) as Finn Lambert
  • Any Human Heart (2010) as Dr. Roissansac
  • Flashpoint (2011) as Dr. Peter Applewhite
  • The Listener (2013) as Brad Barrett
  • Nikita (2013) as Industrialist/Man in Shadow
  • Murdoch Mysteries (2013, 2018) as Preston Monk & Montague Ainsworth
  • Republic of Doyle (2014) as Vincent Letto
  • Bitten (2014-2016) as Karl Marsten
  • Man Seeking Woman (2015) as Roger
  • Mayday (2015, 2017) as Lead Investigator note  and AAIB Investigator Rob Carter note 
  • Reign (2015) as Cardinal Desjardin
  • Private Eyes (2016) as Will Schmit
  • Between (2016) as Dexter Crane
  • Killjoys (2016-2017) as Liam Jelco
  • Saving Hope (2017) as Todd Groaner
  • The Kennedys After Camelot (2017) as Teddy White
  • Suits (2017) as Dr. Jacob Manning

Video Game Roles:


Tropes associated with Pascal Langdale and his roles:

  • Actor Allusion: One episode of Bitten shows Karl holding an origami figure, which Pascal made himself. He later said in a tweet that it was an intentional nod.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: In this interview, he tells a story of how he deduced that someone had recently had surgery for a back injury by mimicking the way they walked and feeling where his body was compensating for the injury.
  • Bilingual Bonus:
    • He speaks untranslated French in Spooks.
    • His given last name, Langlois, is French for "the English."
  • Chronically Killed Actor: His death scenes include Steel Trap, Sharpe's Peril, Spooks, Heavy Rain, Murdoch Mysteries, Bitten (notable for being a case of Death by Adaptation), Watch Dogs: Legion, and See For Me.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Many of his roles tend to be this.
  • Gender-Blender Name: His character on Cards on the Table is a man nicknamed Shirley.
  • Man of a Thousand Faces: He has been nicknamed "The Swiss Army Knife" of motion capture acting. The characters he plays are so distinct from each other that it can sometimes be hard to tell that they’re all played by the same person.
  • Stage Name: He changed his last name from Langlois to the more English-sounding Langdale because casting directors kept assuming he was French. Ironically, he still got called in for a lot of French casting after the name change.

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